Otto Egon Lowenstein
Otto Egon Lowenstein FRSE (24 October 1906 – 31 January 1999) was a German-born zoologist. He did extensive studies on the labyrinth of the ears of fish.
Life
He was born in Munich on 24 October 1906, to a Jewish family.[1] He studied Sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He was taught Zoology by Karl von Frisch. He continued to postgraduate level gaining a PhD in 1932.[2]
In 1933, he left Germany and went to Britain. He began as a research student at the University of Birmingham, gaining a second PhD in 1937. In that year he took a post as Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Exeter. In 1938, he went to the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer under Prof Edward Hindle. In 1952, he was given a professorship at the University of Birmingham.[3]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1947. His proposers were Maurice Yonge, Charles Wynford Parsons, John Walton and George Wyburn. In 1955, he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.[4]
He retired in 1974. He died on 31 January 1999.
Family
In 1937, he married Elsa Ritter. He secondly married Gunilla Dohlman (d.1981). He finally (aged 80) married Maureen McKernan in 1986.
References
- ↑ Ute Deichmann, Biologists Under Hitler, Harvard University Press (1996), p. 42
- ↑ "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Otto Egon Lowenstein".
- ↑ The Independent (newspaper): Obituary 22 February 1999
- ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2017.